skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the "Closing Thoughts" express the point of his amusing and mostly well-executed exercise, then for all his skill it's a wasted effort. It's precisely "doctrine and dogma", "rulebooks and boilerplate", that make JavaScript work for group development and long-term maintainability.

This is the coding equivalent of the garage musician who says, "Don't bother me with rules — I'm playing pure emotion here, man!"
He may not be a guy who doesn't give a fuck about people _reading_ the article though.
"I had fun once, it was horrible."
The next trick is for libraries to make sure their homegrown class systems are migrated to ES6 classes, or interop with consistent semantics.
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Exercising at the gym, playing chess, playing tennis and swimming when I can.
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How long until visual recognition is mainstream?
> Nokia produced far better phones under the Symbian banner

The problem here is that you appear to have no idea what the word "better" means to a consumer, as opposed to a hacker.

And that's why you can't understand Apple's success and write it off to "marketing".
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At that point, it'd basically become an x86 core, with all the space and complexity that requires.

It's easier to translate in software.
This question is also in my mind. Will tourist visa work for YC?
Probably things like SSE.
Not only will the shape be more and more condom-like (which I'm blaming for the drop off in birth rates in developed countries), but apparently an increasing number of folks will live over 100 in 2100, e.g. http://populationpyramid.net/Japan/2100/
Coyote is a dynamic system. You can flag radars (or "danger zones"), and if enough people flag it everyone will be warned. You can also flag zones as being outdated (i.e. the cops have gone home)
Yes those EU privacy laws are really great: "German police clearly state that they are monitoring Skype, Google Mail, MSN Hotmail, Yahoo Mail and Facebook chat ..." "Altogether more than a billion Euro was spent on private services by German police and other public authorities in the realm of the ministry of home affairs in the years 2002 – 2012". http://annalist.noblogs.org/post/2012/10/03/german-police-mo...
This isn't how the law works. The law cares about intent.
"In the latest raid, on September 5th, hackers stole $250,000 in Bitcoins from Bitfloor, a large American exchange, causing it to shut down its operation." What does that say about the overall reliability of Bitcoins as a new form of currency?

This can be compared to the Wild West times when gangs used to break into banks and steal lots of money. It is not that the money was weak, but that those storing it did not have proper security.

As bitcoins become more popular, you will have more and more competent individuals start offering storage services for these.
What does it 'feel like' to be a smart person?
That title is sensational. The author cleary doesn't know what the difference between a hedge fund, asset manager and cash management is.

It is likely that Apple's Braeburn Capital does "hedge" some risk, but it is unlikely that if they were a stand alone entity which was investing other people's money that anyone would call them a "hedge fund".

It is more likely that they are mainly long "buying assets, not shorting them" and that they invest with various asset managers who also reduce risk.

They also probably have a private equity arm (venture capital) and invest in other securities.

At the end of the day, they are not a pure hedge fund no matter what, and are likely not even a small part hedge fund.

(Keep in mind, I don't have any problem with hedge funds, they play an integral part in finance, but that is a discussion for a different post)
You mean like years and years from now? Nice "sky is falling"
attitude.
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when was the last time you ever saw anything from yahoo
answers that was not a joke (accidental or otherwise)?

Just the other day I typed "1.3 meters in inches" into Google, to use their calculator. Yahoo answers was at the top of Google's rankings.

Yahoo Answers isn't just top for "1.3 meters in inches" - they're also top for "1.2 meters in inches", "1.4 meters in inches", one-from-top in "1.5 meters in inches" and "1.6 meters in inches" and top for "1.7 meters in inches" - not to mention "1 meter in centimeters". Evidently, Yahoo Answers is a market leader in this sort of query.
When you ask your officemate to open the window, does legal tell you to stop saying that Word(TM) because you're not using it according to the way Microsoft defined it?
Sounds like an ideal setup for a legal insurance.
I highly recommend listening to this.
That would be a question I have as well. AFAIK know, there it no Visa suited for YC unless you can do ESTA.
Does anyone have a link to that original overview presentation? It would be awesome to see a first look at Rails from way back when it was first announced.
You are absolutely right. I was excited because I can finally read the code and learn something from it.

But of course the implication "open source -> I can use it anywhere I want" is broken in this case. The author should have been a little more careful in not abusing that term, even if this was posted on his blog.

I am well aware of that licence, I myself had to use it for some code I wrote while at MSR [1]. I was not happy at all about the non-commercial clause, but it was either that or not releasing the code. I guess the same happened here.

[1] https://github.com/ot/path_decomposed_tries/blob/master/LICE...
No, but I will now. Thanks for the tip.
I'm having a hard time thinking that people will really do everything by speaking at their computer. This may work if you drive a car alone, or have a private office, but in more public spaces the cacophony would be bad.

And would you really want the whole train car to know the email you're writing?

But we'll see, naysayers like me have been wrong before. I wrote some predictions of my own about the subject: http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/tablet-productivity/
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I was not thinking about full blown x86 support, but partial support where it matters. A bit like the Jazelle Java bytecode support, it wouldn't really run x86 code in native but would support extensions that would make it easier and faster. I'm not familiar enough with the x86 instruction set to guess where this would really improve performances though.
Because they were all iPods. Apple is very safe on that front, I think. Few if any people will even think to compare that.
Especially this bit:

"This is pretty interesting if you love new things, love change, and love playing around with stuff. If you don’t and hate the idea of breaking changes, you maybe are better suited with the Python way. But don’t be afraid of breaking changes."

Pythonistas apparently don't like new stuff, change, or hacking around with things. How could anyone with any knowledge of both Ruby and Python write something like that in seriousness?
Looking at US E-book Statistics and Trends
Keep your AWS environments separate with IAM.
Here's a list of the ones that are under review right now:

http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/program-status/application-resu...
Well I suppose it's been 3 months or so since we last had the whole "PHP is Great!" no "PHP is Terrible!" debate here on HN, it seems like it's time to have it again...
Someone told me that you can't register a business or incorporate a company as a tourist. So maybe, tourist visa will not work for YC? Because AFAIK you need to be incorporated in YC, right?

Also, can you explain ESTA to me?
The IP adresses are only useful as long as the ISP keeps the log of the IP assignments. While I'm sure some ISPs keep this around indefinetely (why?), most hopefully don't and there might be limits on the retention period imposed by law.

Of course the data is useful apart from hunting down unlicensed usage, for one thing it's an interesting way to measure a given product's popularity.
Radar detectors and radar "warners" are still in a different category. In any case, all warning systems have been upgraded to become "danger zone warning systems" :)
I think you should follow the standard procedure first http://ycombinator.com/howtoapply.html so, make a video, fill the forms http://ycombinator.com/apply.html and submit them.

btw, in doing so you will clarify and refine your ideas, that is why they insist on this procedure. It saves not just their time, but your time and money.

Now a few things to consider. There are, of course, many people were relocated to work for, or create a startup in Valley. This is the crucial point - YC supports only US-based startups.

They have power, connections, influence and almost unlimited money in valley, but can't do anything outside US. There are other connected guys in other countries.) So, you will work for them in US or, if your idea is that good, will bootstrap your company in the US (with them as privileged stockholders).

There is no way they can finance any business outside US, and you should try to find a domestic investors.)
I assume you are asking due to my comment about "most punishable of all offenses". I'll be honest and say it was a wee bit tongue-in-check. That said, I'm for anti-trust laws in principle.

For me to support them in practice, execution needs to be delicate. As for in so many other fields, this is the hard part.
Yes, this is described in the first paragraph of the article...
Here's a shorter, popular article about how the "data detective" got started in using statistics to spot faked data in psychology journal articles:

http://www.nature.com/news/the-data-detective-1.10937

A subsequent popular article about him

http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/07/data-detective-makes-hi...

led me to the submission here, his formal (pre-publication) paper on his method of detecting fraud.
Never gonna happen, even if the speech recognition were without flaws. Talking to your device is not a viable input method whenever other people you do not want to disturb are around. That doesn’t make voice recognition useless (I think it’s very useful), but it also doesn’t make voice recognition a viable keyboard replacement.
The danger of he-said/she-said contests is that peoples' perceptions (myself included) end up being biased heavily by their own attitudes toward power. This can be described as an emotional left/right that may or may not correlate with economics. (Many libertarians are emotionally leftist-- they despise centralized power-- but economically toward the right. They just happen to see governments as more of an enemy than corporations... and I disagree with them, but that's another story.) This whole mess is probably the result of a failed negotiation and we have no way of knowing who failed, miscommunicated, or did wrong.

If there isn't much hard evidence (and in this case, there's not) then people will tend to side with power if they're emotionally rightist and against power if they're emotional leftists. (I'm an emotional leftist, as you can probably tell.)

What you discover when you become a whistleblower is that about 70 percent of people are on the emotional right. They think they're in the center because they don't reject the whistleblower out of hand (instead, they complain that "she may be right, but she didn't use proper channels and I certainly want nothing to do with this matter.") That's not always a bad thing; the powerful entity is known, and the whistleblower is a total unknown, and people tend to be afraid of unknowns. It does, however, make it very difficult to be an effective whistleblower. Worse yet, an even larger percentage of people in positions of power (such as future employers) are on the emotional right.

White-collar employment culture is emotionally rightist in the extreme; if your ex-company says you weren't a leader and you say you were, they're often taken to be right and you're wrong. It's extremely unfortunate and wrong that it's this way, but I don't see how it could be any different (surprise: high-ranking people in powerful institutions tend to side with power) but it is something one needs to be aware of.
A speed camera costs about 75k euros to install, and then needs to be maintained, calibrated etc
Men with shaved heads are perceived to be more masculine
> I'm not sure you could do that without permission from Intel though.

Then how does AMD do it?
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It does not fully answer the question, but this discussion is relevant :

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3545548
Of course, writers would all consume linear space.
However many large companies have a no GPL policy. I did a little bit of work for a large multinational engineering company most of you have heard of and was told in no uncertain terms that I was not allowed to use any GPLed code anywhere in anything I delivered. They also had a large document they made me read which listed dozens of licenses and exacting details over how I was and wasn't allowed to use software under those licenses.
The problem with projecting forward is that we have no idea what trends birth/immigration rates will take over the next century. Looking historically, it's clear that birth rates expand and contract cyclically, but this visualization seems to assume a fixed birth rate going forward so that all the hourglass trends smooth out and you end up with bottom-cropped sausage no matter where you start out.
All the African nations have huge birthrates

http://populationpyramid.net/Niger/2020/

10-15yrs from now that is a big workforce.
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Thanks for that. In my mind I've been calling C++, C#, etc. "class-based" programming since the design/programming phase is really focussed on classes. I've not much experience with prototype-based programming other than the occasional blurb. This is a nice intro.
The same thing they put on TV when my wife is watching the Big Bang Theory.
It worked for the Beatles.
Would you mind describing that attack in a bit more detail?
http://media.rubyonrails.org/video/rails_take2_with_sound.mo...
The Internet blowhard's favorite phrase: Correlation does not imply causation
Where is this quote from: “The .edu domain was originally intended for educational institutions anywhere in the world, when it was launched in 1985”? This seems historically dubious. While I appreciate the argument that all educational institutions should have access to the .edu TLD, like .com the original intention was likely for US. The US dominated the early history of the Internet (and still does).
Within a few years, Intel CPUs are soon going to compete with ARM.
Yeah, and why not do it based on a blog post that is 8 years old...
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"Therefore ARE servers only hold encrypted private keys and neither we or anyone else can access them. Only you."

Misspellings on your landing page don't inspire confidence.
Yes? When something is statistically and objectively perpetrated by one group, it's not racist to note as much when someone of said group does said thing.

e.g. "Mansplaining" describes a behavior perpetrated overhwelmingly by men. By not by all men. And it's not right to automatically assume a given man is going to mansplain something.

But when a man starts mansplaining, it's not misandry to note that mansplaining is perpetrated overwhelmingly by men.
I'm actually waiting for a 7" iPad for my son. Have been since my 2 year old son decided my iPad is his favorite toy. He loves the thing, but it's just a bit too bulky for him to use comfortably.

I was thinking about getting him a 7" Android tablet but he has so many apps and movies that he loves from the Apple store, he probably wouldn't be interested. We even tried a dedicated "kids" tablet in a shop, after 2 minutes he got so frustrated he threw it down and toddled off to look at the other toys.

I think I've raised an Apple fan boy.
Correct me if I'm wrong but is 9gag (YC 12) a Hong Kong based startup?
It's interesting from an historical point of view anyway
First, I sympathize with you.

However, I personally love the idea of polluting .xxx with non-pornographic (and interesting) material because I think the entire idea behind .xxx is flawed and goes against the spirit of the Internet.

Freedom, and the assumption of freedom, should always be the default. If you choose to associate with people who seek to restrict your access to information (your freedom), then it is your responsibility to be vigilant.
I'd argue that this is less "PHP is terrible!" and much, much more "Advocating for one tool above all else is terrible!"
Bitcoin uses a proof of work system to determine the valid chain of transactions, as well as who gets the initial currency payout. Basically, anyone who controls more than 50% of the CPU power in the Bitcoin network can control the currency.

If you want more details, I'd recommend reading the Bitcoin paper: http://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

Some of the various forks have tried to work around this by having trusted nodes and the like, but then you lose the decentralized nature and are vulnerable to the trusted nodes going rogue.
The sell-through rate is the percentage of magazines that make it into a customer's hands. 66% would be very high; it's typically much less. (Keep in mind that once a new issue comes out, the old issue is pretty much instantly worthless)
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"What he has found is in direct opposition to Ayn Rand's selfish ideal. For example, in 100 percent of LPA societies ... generosity or altruism is always favored toward relatives and non-relatives alike, with sharing and cooperation being the most cited moral values"

Would Rand think it is wrong to be an altruist just for your own family? (E.g. your family's survival).

John Galt chose to exit the corrupt society and start (a small) new society based upon his values. If I remember correct he was waiting (and actively helped for) society to implode so he could reboot it. He didn't do what the article claims: "He refused to participate in society and no one has seen him since."
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Men with shaved heads are perceived to be more masculine, dominant and, in some cases, to have greater leadership potential than those with longer locks or with thinning hair... Wow - my bald head makes me look more masculine. That's definitely a shocker.
They also had (in addition to abnormal amounts of talent) a producer who not only knew the rules but had the knack of knowing how much could be applied without squashing their music.
It reminds me of bands who have offensive names, or developers who name their software after offense words.

They might not care about "rules" or "society" or this and that they might say, but it's inconvenient for me. Even though I am not offended easily, some of my coworkers, bosses, classmates, people on the bus, etc might be. If it's inconvenient for me to view the site, use the software, or have the album art showing on my iPod/computer, I'm going to avoid it even if I like it.

That's their choice, I understand. They made the determination that there are people who could appreciate their work but aren't willing to take the same hit to their reputation. It just disappoints me as a fan.
thanks, you're too kind. I'm also annoyed by double posting. And I was overly excited :)
It is accurate that a vocal part of the Python community has been throwing a tantrum about Python 3 for quite a while, however.
Rumored? Are there numbers somewhere or is it still in development or something?
I'll bite on the Symbian claim.

Saying that the iPhone is not leaps and bounds better than anything else in the market at the time is disingenuous - if you used both the N95's browser (with the crummy joystick-controlled mouse) and the iPhone's multitouch browser, you'd know there is no comparison.

I'll go further and say the Nokia phones at the time were much more marketing-driven. They had huge checklists of features _so that marketing could say they have "more features"_ (e.g. irDA), but the core experience was poor (unresponsive and confusing UI, bad input methods) it didn't matter.

Did Nokia make better phones? In one sense, yes - they had longer battery lives, better cameras, they worked much better as phones, for chrissake. But, in the most important way, the iPhone blew everything out of the water - which phone people would prefer to use. I preferred a usable browsing and mapping experience to the jack-of-all-trades and master of none approach of Nokia phones, and apparently, so did the market.
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Do you really think so, though? The question is still the same regardless if you know who is asking.

I guess you are right that is may be more "interesting" if say famous developer X person asked vs a random nobody, but I also see the benefit of them being anonymous because it requires the answer to be better.

If famous developer X person had asked, they may feel more compelled to answer rather than if it was a nobody. By asking anonymously they might feel like they need to answer more appropriately regardless because it could be either or.
>how is geography relevant on the internet? //

Legal jurisdiction, delivery of goods, payment/receipt of money, ...
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Actually all the entitled bitching and moaning on the ML class forum was by far the biggest turnoff of the whole experience for me. I was much happier after ignoring it and my "classmates" entirely.
Indeed, AMD licenses the SSE from Intel, and Intel licenses x64 from AMD.
>Sounds nice, but the way the market in consumer electronics is going

How is it going?

>it's about time for Apple to do something disruptive

How many disruptions do people need? The iPad is 2 years old!

Some people get bored so easily they won't be satisfied until we reach the Singularity!
We've been hearing that for the past few years.
If Nokia has suffered about as much as its share-holders can stomach, but Microsoft still wants to push their platform, would Microsoft have any choice?

Anyway, the thing I haven't seen anyone consider is: whether the device being 'locked down' in the Entertainment/Devices group is more an iPod Touch competitor -- skewed toward gaming -- than iPhone.

That would make sense to me anyway. It would placate existing phone OEMs and serve as a Skunkworks "what do we do if the OEMs abandon us" project.

It's also a huge opportunity for Microsoft to build support for the winphone platform off their popular and functional consumer ecosystem in the XBox/Live/Marketplace/Content Deals/etc.

And with Nintendo potentially forcing the "second-screen" configuration, Microsoft needs to have a more-integrated first-party solution than even their current attempt.
Why? You need a hominem for an ad hominem?
This is not true. There are YC companies based outside the US. Songkick is the first that springs to mind, based in London.

IIRC, you can take your company back to any country (I'm sure they'll quiz you, why you think it's appropriate.) You will, however, need to move to SV for three months after a successful application and interview. After that, it's up to you..